Braille Summit Coming in June
The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped will convene its first major conference to explore the future of Braille. Read Full Post >
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May 23, 2013
May 06, 2013
New Releases: Atypical Classroom Texts
Looking for a new classroom approaches and ideas that you can mull over this summer? These new releases might spark some ideas. Read Full Post >
March 04, 2013
New X PRIZE Will Reward Literacy Solutions
The X PRIZE Foundation, an organization for incentivized competitions across science and technology development, will create a literacy prize in 2013. Read Full Post >
February 05, 2013
New Book Releases: Literacy and Social Justice
New and recent books releases for K-12 educators tackle questions of student rights, social responsibility, and ethics both in and out of the classroom. Read Full Post >
January 03, 2013
Adaptation, Translation, or Bowdlerization?
In recent opinion essays, two educators argue against teaching with adapted, rewritten, or "sanitized" versions of classics. Read Full Post >
December 10, 2012
Gift Funds New Library of Congress Literacy Awards
A philanthropist's $1.5 million donation will establish three new prizes for significant work in literacy. Read Full Post >
December 10, 2012
At Book Summit, Access to Reading Matters Most
The first International Summit of the Book attracted publishers, librarians, and scholars; many argued for the importance of reading in any format. Read Full Post >
November 19, 2012
New Releases in Literacy
New K-12 education book releases in reading and multiple literacies. Read Full Post >
November 15, 2012
E-Books Advance Literacy in Africa
Worldreader and DHL Express have partnered to provide 1 million e-readers to school children in Africa by 2015. Read Full Post >
November 14, 2012
Engaging Students Through Multiple Literacies
A high school literature class explores war-related media by reading, writing, and creating multimedia texts. Read Full Post >
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